The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-04-08
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

'+dcF may DE N1sheu by winding IL
around bottles or sewing it on muslin and
boiling it in soft water with white CASTLE
soap. Ii should be rinsed in soft water
after removing it from the suds.
Nothing is better for sore throat than
q gargle Of salt and water. Itmay be used
as often as desired, and If a little is swal-
lowed each time it is used it will cleanse
the throat and allay the irritation
A damp cloth enveloping the broom head
will be found desirable in removing the
dust FROM carpet in room where there
may be small articles to catch the dirt
raised by an ordinary sweeping.
Preserving jars should be stood on their
heads for at least an hour after sealing,
when the liqaor will escape if the jar con-
tains air. Cranberry jelly mixed with cold
water makes refreshing drink for the
sick.
Salt, in doses Of one to four teaspoonfuls
in half pint to pint of tepid water. is
an emetic always on hand. This is also
an antidote to be used after poisoning from
nitrate Of silver while waiting for the doe
tor to come.
Silver should be washed with chamois
skin, saturated with silver soap, each time
after use, thus avoiding general cleaning
Windows should never be washed while
the sun shines upon them, as it is impossi-
BILE to polish them without leaving blue
streaks.
II You are troubled W it'll moths in your
featber-beds boil the feathers in water for
a short time: then put them in sacks and
dry them, working them with the hands
all the time. silk dresses should never be
brushed with a whisk broom, but should
be carefully rubbed with velvet mitten
kept for that purpose only.
Disease often turks in dirty disheloth,
greasy sink, an 9aclean teakettIe and
poorly-ventilated oven. Flannel should
be washed in hot soapsuds, and rinsed in
hot water containing soap enough to soften
it a little. \ earpet-swceper is invaluable
in a dining-room where small children eat,
but should never be used for general
sweeping.
If the feet are tender OF painful after
long walking or standing, great relief can
be had by bathing them in salt and water
\ handful of salt to = gallon of water IS
the right proportion. Have the water as
hot as can comfortably be borne. Immerse
the feet and throw the water over the legs
as far as the knees with the hands. When
the water becomes too cool, rnb brislily
with fresh towel This method, if used
night and morning, viii cure neuralgia of
the feet.
To prevent the juice Of pies soaking into
the under crust, beat the white of an egg
and brush the crust with it. If the oven is
too hot when baking place a small dish OF
cold water in IT, Well-ventilated bed
rooms will prevent morning headaches and
lassitude Powdered rice. sprinkled upon
lint and applied to fresh wounds, will stop
bleeding. y taliow candle or piece of tai
low wrapped in tissue paper and laid
among furs or other garments will prevent
the ravages of moths
Soda VIII clean tarnished tin. Vinegar
and salt will clean copper Butter is the
best polish to put into starch. Baking
soda put on "a burn will take ont the heat
\ heated knife will cut hot bread without
making ii soggy Oil Of cedar is sure
death to yer,nin which infest chambers
Toilet sets and all chamber articles should
be cleaned in cold water. White lead Will
cement broken croekery, l0-eent botile
lasting for years. A small paint brush
should be used in cracks and creyices
while busting room
A simple way of loosening a rasted screw
is to apply heat to the head Of it. When
the burners of lamps become elogged with
char, boil them in strong soapsuds. BY
using soda water as a wash you can clean
ceilings that have been smoked by kero-
sene lamp. If you drop SCOT on the carpet
cover thickly with salt. and it may be
swept up without blackening the carpet
4 few oyster shells mixed with the coal
usctk iuI q ltiIart ~ y ID &c stpft via pre-
vent the accumulation of elinkers To
clean brass bird cages use = tablespoonful
of salt and a teaeupful OF vinegar, beat,
and apply with a piece of flannel and rub
till dry.
Bent whalebones can be restored and
used again by simply soaking in water
few hours, then drying them. To restore
crushed velvet hold it over the spout of the
teakettle and let il steam well, then comb
up the nap. Brooms dipped for few min
utes in boiling suds once a week will last
much longer than they otherwise would.
Kid shoes may he kept soft and free from
cracks by rubbing them once week with
little pure glycerine or castor oil. A
piece Of zinc placed on the Goals Of hot
stove will clean out the stove pipe. The
vapor produced carries OF the SCOT by
chemical decomposition.
To wash silk handkerchiefs. soak them
first in cold salt and water for ten minutes,
or longer, then wash out in the same wa
ter and iron Immediately. Carpets may be
greatly frightened by first sweeping thor
oughly and then going over them with
clean cloth and clear salt water. Use a
cupful Of coarse salt to a large basin Of